Paramount
(US) made the previous instalments Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara
Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, but let the rights lapse,
meaning they have now reverted to game Publisher Eidos. When Warner
upped their stake in the publisher in December, the film rights were
part of the deal.

The studio will now begin looking for a writer, a director and a star to play the iconic archaeologist,